we lost seat for women in the u.s. congress for the first time in some 30 years. but in in, which was primarily driven by democratic women, we end up with more women in the house and senate than we've had in history. >> the building, the point you made about how much investment goes into training women to be able to run effectively for office. because i think the story that most people don't know is how people become candidates for office. if you don't have a feeder pool that you're supporting into the process of understanding how it works, how to put a campaign together, how to run it, there's been a lot of work in investment and women's ability to be in the pipeline. i think we've heard, you also have to have open seats to make some of this possible. the one thing to lift out is race. we keep talking about women. are you a woman or are you black? you know what i'm saying? it's much more complex. 56% of white women voted for romney. 96% of black women voted for boim and 72% of latinas voted -- there are distinctions within gender when you add the racial dynamic.